As many of us here know well enough, Wikipedia is full of lies and government propaganda. As Alex Jones once said, there is a war on for our minds. Sadly, Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites as a source for information on the internet, and I personally think its time to fight back. For too long we the people, not of America, but of Earth, have been mislead by powers that be into slavery, their most powerful weapon being misinformation.

Now we can sit on our ass and not do anything, or we can actually do something we have control over. You see, anyone can edit Wikipedia, so I say, "Why not?"

Why not correct the obvious blatant lies and replace with solid sourced fact. I see very few articles on Wikipedia that actually show how corrupt our government is. The international bankers, global elite, none of that is on there! I think we need to step up, get a good number of people together in on this, wake people up. I'm not saying its going to solve all the disinformation issues right away, right off the bat, but it is a step in the right direction.

Now, I ask you, members of ATS, how should we go about doing this? I'm all for starting with one article at a time, and begin deconstructing the disinfo in the respective article, finding sources to back up our arguments, and going about editing. Its just the question of where to start, any one have some ideas, or government-related Wikipedia pages that are just filled with outright lies that we can start with? I know of several, I just don't know where to start.

So what do you say? Want to declare war on disinformation?

In my opinion: Although a valuable resource overall, I believe Wikipedia is plagued with corruption in the form of single users signing up under multiple accounts and making use of private proxies which allow spoofing of user agents. This can literally allow a single person who is being paid or otherwise has a personal agenda to sign up under a long list of user names and use them to control controversial pages or be hired to control pages for others, without the possibility of being discovered by checking IP's. Some of these people are very skilled, creating user pages with diverse backgrounds for each of their characters, and private proxies allow them to choose IP addresses from all over the world, as well as spoofing operating system and web browser type. The same people who would do this will likely be vying for administrator and other positions.

Sounds good OP, but I have edited Wiki myself many times over the last couple years and everything I have edited was removed within a few hours to a couple days. Source info was supplied also, but they still removed it. I suggest getting many involved and work on one or a small number of subjects at a time. A few days back, after the Alex Jones interview with Dr Steve Pieczenik, Wiki altered his page and scheduled it for deletion. Many ATSer's went to work on providing references for his background. If you visit his Wiki page, you will see most of the "references" are dated May 5,2011 and we're provided by ATSer's.

just a note, in order to remove a statement and a source from wikipedia, you have to disprove the statement as well as the source, just like it should be in regular debate. you can't just remove something and put something that fits your viewpoint in it's place, that's stupid and typical, and they'll just throw the "fringe beliefs" rule at you.

Originally posted by freedom12
Sounds good OP, but I have edited Wiki myself many times over the last couple years and everything I have edited was removed within a few hours to a couple days. Source info was supplied also, but they still removed it. I suggest getting many involved and work on one or a small number of subjects at a time. A few days back, after the Alex Jones interview with Dr Steve Pieczenik, Wiki altered his page and scheduled it for deletion. Many ATSer's went to work on providing references for his background. If you visit his Wiki page, you will see most of the "references" are dated May 5,2011 and we're provided by ATSer's.

This is exactly what inspired me. =D And yes, that is my original plan, to get many involved and work on one at a time, or small numbers. An example of a few articles are the ones on Nazi Germany. I see nowhere about the Jewish Nazis that enlisted in his army, or that Hitler was possibly of lineage to the Rothschild family. The former is very likely, as is the latter, but they keep removing stuff like that. I say, if we get together a large enough group of dissidents, it could work. It wouldn't hurt to try.

Whether we win or lose, it doesn't matter, we need to fight back, and we need to fight back hard.

They are pretty quick to clean up the unwanted editing and people attempting to do this should know IPs are logged for all to see by going through the history tabs. Do it too much to one article and editing will be frozen for vandalism reasons.

In fact, why not have a look through the history in articles to see if any juicy tidbits of info, which would be in red, was put in only to be taken out. Ive found some good stuff before by doing that.

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Recently, I have begun to type up quotes to actual hard material when citing references on ATS. It's more time consuming for me, but it's my way of presenting good material lacking from convenient quick net searches.